doctor sleep

June 13, 2019

First Trailer For Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep

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Is there any possible taller order than trying to make a sequel to The Shining? Stephen King wrote a followup to his own book in 2013 called Doctor Sleep, about a grown-up Danny Torrance. The task now falls on Warner Bros. to make a movie out of that book without the guidance of Stanley Kubrick — while at the same time pleasing King, who hated Kubrick’s movie. These days, Danny is trying to use his Shining for good, helping out at a local hospice and using his powers to guide the dying to the other side. He also has a cat that can predict when someone’s about to die (because Stephen King). Danny is still shaken by the trauma of his dad trying to kill him with a croquet mallet (changed to an axe in the movie, because croquet mallets make lousy murdering tools). The movie’s plot kicks into gear when Danny meets a girl also gifted with the Shining, named Abra (King isn’t a Pokemon fan…that we know of).

January 26, 2018

Mike Flanagan Hired To Direct Shining Sequel

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In 2013 Stephen King published Doctor Sleep, a sequel to his famous novel The Shining that followed Danny Torrance as a grown-up. Such a high-profile release would inevitably become a movie someday. That day is coming soon: Deadline reports that Warner Bros, who produced Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 adaption of the original, now holds the movie rights to Doctor Sleep and intends to use them immediately. They’ve hired director Mike Flanagan to see the task through. Flanagan has an impressive track record, especially with horror. He’s directed some of the most critically praised scary films in recent memory: Absentia, Oculus, Ouija: Origin of Evil, Hush, and Before I Wake. Most recently, he adapted the “unadaptable” Stephen King novel Gerald’s Game into a Netflix movie. Both King and WB love him, and on top of that, he’s spoken publicly about his desire to adapt Doctor Sleep to film. Looks like he gets to do it. It goes without saying this is going to be the challenge of Flanagan’s career. Even for him